Where to Get Them 



nay at Lake St. John, just at the outlet, near the 

 Island House. 



Large in size and abundant in number are 

 those caught in Georgian Bay, in the St. Law- 

 rence, and Lake St. George, the latter being the 



most famous. From Lake Champlain 

 Waters ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ found, down through the 



lakes in New York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 .sylvania, to Kentucky and Tennessee. Michigan, 

 Minnesota, Montana, all the States of the Middle 

 West, have pike waters a-plenty. 



BASS 



The black bass, both large and small mouth, is 

 at the present day so widely distributed that there 

 are few sections in the United States where they 

 are not found. This happy condition is due to 

 the real worth of the fish as a gamy quarry, so that 

 many States and private individuals have placed 

 them in waters suited to their requirements. 



Bass were introduced into the State of Maine 



by the commissioners in 1869. In New York 



State the commissioners planted bass in seventy 



lakes, ponds, and rivers in 1871. 



Introduction Private citizens of Pennsylvania 



in New 



Waters introduced small-mouth bass into 



the Susquehanna, Potomac, and 



Delaware rivers in 1873; New Hampshire, in 



1864, Connecticut in 1852, Massachusetts in 1850. 



The black bass is indigenous in the waters of 



northern Wisconsin, and along the Appalach- 



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